Robinhood is routing its new US crypto perpetuals, with up to 10x leverage, through its own Bitstamp exchange instead of Lighter. Lighter's LIT token fell about 17% within the hour, a loss Bankless calls a near-term repricing that gets tested once US rules admit decentralized venues.
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Robinhood says more than 150,000 customers have opened AI agent trading accounts that generate roughly 30 million automated actions a day. The agents' guardrail is a manual-approval default that customers can adjust. Robinhood is setting that default as the company pushes toward trading that never stops.
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Robinhood said eligible US customers will trade eight crypto perpetual futures in its app within months, with up to 10x leverage on bitcoin and ether. The product brings leverage US retail traders mostly found on offshore exchanges into a mainstream American brokerage.
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Cornering a stock token makes the token scarce and leaves the share register untouched, which is why a memecoin pool could bid tokenized AMC to roughly 64 times its offchain price without threatening a single short.
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The SEC's September 17 Innovation Exemption runs five years and requires tokenized stocks to carry full shareholder rights, so the Jersey-issued debt securities Robinhood sells in 120 countries do not qualify as written, and issuers get a say in what does.
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Vlad Tenev told Jim Cramer that crypto-linked contracts already take a disproportionate share of Robinhood's event-contract volume, and the $156 million the segment billed in the second quarter works out to about 1.1 cents a contract.
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The SEC's Sept. 17 order lets venues trade tokenized stocks in permissioned AMM pools without registering as exchanges, if the token passes the underlying's dividends and votes to the holder. Robinhood's 200 tokens are Jersey debt paper.
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Bernstein has raised its ten-year prediction-market forecast tenfold, to $10 trillion of annual volume by 2035. Nearly half of that total comes from assuming the contracts capture 0.5% of a $900 trillion financial-asset pool.
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Oura's S-1 lists 18 underwriters and Robinhood is the last of them, on a deal seeking up to $3bn at more than $16bn. It is the first use of a licence the brokerage received in June 2026, and what it buys is a say in allocation.
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Vlad Tenev says an issuer's authority reaches the privileges attached to the shares it issues and no further. Robinhood keeps its AMC tokens on sale while Adam Aron calls them unauthorized and threatens to bring in the SEC.
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The thing AMC wants withdrawn is debt issued by a Jersey subsidiary, so the buyer holds a cinema chain's price and Robinhood's solvency in one position, and the SEC line separating the two tokenisation routes binds nobody.
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The brokerage's own disclosures put responsibility for a misread instruction on the customer and say Robinhood does not supervise the connected agent, which leaves the agent provider's exposure undocumented.
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Robinhood's Stock Tokens are Jersey-issued debt that pays a share's price and none of its rights, which is why its chief legal officer, an SEC commissioner until 2015, says it will not stop, and why AMC's route to Washington looks narrow.
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Adam Aron wants trading stopped and has AMC's securities lawyers on it, but the obligor on the instrument is Robinhood Assets (Jersey) Limited, so the holder's contract was never with AMC and the demand letter has no counterparty to name.
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Weekly meme coin volume on Robinhood's layer-2 rose to $3.5bn in late August, and the Solana base that figure is measured against sat near $42bn in both weeks, so the gain is share taken, not a market growing.
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The tokens are notes from Robinhood Assets (Jersey) Limited that pay off AMC's share price and carry no rights against AMC, which leaves Adam Aron's counsel hunting for a trademark theory rather than a securities one.
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TradePMR will not quote from a rate card, and it reopens each negotiated rate once a year, because the line Robinhood is underwriting is net deposits from the advisor channel rather than custody fees. The referral volume that would settle it is undisclosed.
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Tokenized equities did $66.6 million of the record Aug. 25 print while memecoin pairs fell to 12% of flow. The composition change is real. The dollar displacement is not yet proven.
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Crypto trading revenue fell 30% quarter over quarter in Q1 2026. Robinhood Chain and 190-odd tokenized US stocks are the replacement engine, not a side project.
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More than 99% of Robinhood Chain's volume is memecoin trading, while tokenized equities on it sat at $10.68 million in July. That gap is the number to watch.
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